Catholic Comments Podcast ArchiveCatholic Comments from the Center for Catholic Thought, Creighton Universityhttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/1083312020-06-04T06:47:57Z2020-06-04T06:47:57ZBorders Within the Heart: Perception, Reflection, and IdentityKelly, Tomhttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/1189612019-04-30T18:54:20Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZBorders Within the Heart: Perception, Reflection, and Identity
Kelly, Tom
EXCERPT|Where do we stand on borders and walls? Every year I guide two groups to visit two different borders. One of those borders is between the Dominican Republic in Haiti and the other is between the United States and Mexico. Participants in my program are not amazed at how we can simply pass through the border gates with no checks, no hassle, no barrier at all. It does not faze them. They have come to expect such easy access. We walk from Arizona into Mexico without even having our passports glanced at. We arranged passage from the DR into Haiti through a company that offers access for a small price. No stamps, no hassle, no problem. Who are we to be able to pass through and around walls with no thought? There are many who see us as members of an empire. A theologian from El Salvador described such an empire in 2004, when he said the following: Today's Empire is the United States...
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZIgnite Full Event 2017O'Keefe IV, John J.Burke-Sullivan, EileenKelly, TomVanDyke, ChristinaBivins, JasonKrawiec, Rebeccahttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/1189622019-04-30T18:54:20Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZIgnite Full Event 2017
O'Keefe IV, John J.; Burke-Sullivan, Eileen; Kelly, Tom; VanDyke, Christina; Bivins, Jason; Krawiec, Rebecca
EXCERPT|John O'Keefe introduces 3rd Annual Ignite Talks|Companian video played in parts throughout event|Eileen Burke-Sullivan gives an invocation|Tom Kelly: 'Borders Within the Heart: Perception, Reflection, and Identity'|Christina VanDyke: 'Hadewijch: Transcending Literary Boundaries'|Jason Bivins: 'Improvised Religion: Boundaries and Flow'|Rebecca Krawiec: 'God as a Wall of Fire: Walls, Boundaries, and Identity in Egyptian Monasticism'
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZGod as a Wall of Fire: Walls, Boundaries, and Identity in Egyptian MonasticismKrawiec, Rebeccahttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/1189602019-04-30T18:54:20Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZGod as a Wall of Fire: Walls, Boundaries, and Identity in Egyptian Monasticism
Krawiec, Rebecca
EXCERPT|When thinking about the roles of walls in Egyptian monasticism, I decided to start with a straightforward and yet fundamental point about the roles of walls in religious spaces all together. That they mark out a sacred space by creating a boundary between that sacred and the profane and in doing so it becomes important to a come near that boundary in order to transgress it or approach it through a complex interaction between religious identity and ritual purity. Starting with that fundamental point though, when we turn and we look at walls in Egyptian monasticism, we see a great anxiety about these walls...
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZImprovised Religion: Boundaries and FlowBivins, Jasonhttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/1189592019-04-30T18:54:20Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZImprovised Religion: Boundaries and Flow
Bivins, Jason
EXCERPT|So looking to jazz for me was a provocation to the way I study religion. I've also learned that the conceptual tangles that I've tried to present here capture how for the musicians themselves, spirituality or religion, these are manifestations or pursuits of aesthetic experience, but aesthetic experience can't be so easily disentangled from what we might call spiritual or secular or anything else for that matter...
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